Morgenrød
By Suhpos on February 1, 2026 12:05 am
This week i acquired an exquis mpe controller. I really can't believe how distracted i have been by this thing, there are so many possibilities it's a little bit overwhelming. Spent a lot of time (that I didn't really have to spare) playing this week, but i suppose a big reason of being on this site is wanting to make more music, so i guess it's a good thing. The new gear feeling is starting to wear off a bit. I also started subscribing to kilohearts plugins, mainly to use their synthesizer. so a lot of new stuff all at once. i've been a bit reluctant to use synthesizers this year, I'm not sure why. but this one is very synthesizer driven. Maybe a bit of change from what I did last week, but i've been wanting to do a song for a while now, but winter has been a bit harsh on the voice, and the words just having been coming to me. Simple composition and vocal melody, i would love to something more complex sometime but singing feels pretty difficult for me, so simple it is, for now. A thing i would love to do this year is make more stuff that is performable and doesn't have to just exist inside the computer, I think this started like that. I was singing while playing the pad sound on this controller thingy. I did get through it like that, but later i swapped out two vocal takes. I made another layer with some fm bell kind of thing with pressure controlling lfo speed. and a cardboard scraped with my fingernails for texture, heavily processed. i also tried with the melodica which is the kind of "lead" sound. I had a pitch follower controlling the pitch of a resonator thing with a lot of slew, i think some parts of that turned out quite cool. and the song. eh.. what a mess of a description this.
I'm not the greatest poet in the world (though i wish i was), but i guess the song is about remembering childhood or something. I feel like it could use a third verse. i don't know. Absolutely drenched in reverb. There was an impulse response in the convolution reverb called "nuclear reactor hall" so i went to town... Possibly should have dialed it back a bit, maybe drowned a bit, but i feel like big rooms sound like that when put a lot of sound into them. all the phrases have two tracks; one "dry" (i mean still a lot of reverb but in the mix it sounds dry) and another completely soaked. Faded the dry one out and the wet one in for each sentence, so it sounds like the voice kind of dissapears into the room, quite liked that effect. okay that's enough writing.
Lyrics:
morgenrød, jeg husker dig
fri, men nu så langt fra mig
alt som var og alt som bliver
morgenrød, jeg savner dig
himmelblå, hvem er du nu?
alt du sagde vi kunne
vi er så langt hjemmefra
himmelblå, du sagde vi skulle
Translation:
morning red, i remember you
free, but now so far away from me
all that was and all that will be
morning red i miss you
sky blue, who are you now?
all you said we could (do)
we are so far away from home
sky blue, you said we should (had to)
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